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Ultra Relax corrections

Moteki na should be muteki na, invincible.

Byoku should be byou, illness.

Bekkuri should bikkuri, amazed-ness (a noun).

The three last zenkai ii yukagen sound like zenkai ii tokkei?

I tried all 16 permutations of (t/d)-(o/ou)-(kk/k)-(ei/e), from tokkei to douke, in jisho.org and listened to them in google translate. Tokkei sounds correct and tokkei makes sense: preferential treatment?

Listen at 3.06-3.31 in this one: . The possible tokkei are at 3.15, 3.22 and 3.27.

Re: Ultra Relax corrections

Really THANK YOU for YURAYURAppe itsumo tebasaki and HAZUNTAKATATTA! ZUNTAKATATTA!! My ears never agreed with the uncorrected words. (I try to catch the words, to keep my Japanese up).

A nutty song? That suits me well. Nutty things was what I looked for, when I first entered my now favourite search phrase on Youtube: “wtf Japan”. Try that and you will find Ultra Relax as early as hit no. 10.

(That’s how I discovered Ultra Relax and anime lyrics in general as recently as 7 feb 2013.)

There are three versions of Ultra Relax:Long version 4.36 above.Medium version 2.51 with Shinohara a riding a bomb.Short version 1.34, of wich only this one have readable furigana above kanji subs: .

I transcribed the short one and tried to translate it. Since then I have discovered that all other songs (so far) are easier to translate than Ultra Relax, (by some reason).

One question remains: Which word do you hear at 3.15, 3.22 and 3.27? Yukagen or something else?

Re: Ultra Relax corrections

It is "Yukagen" in all cases. When it comes to transcribing lyrics we generally don't do it by ear unless official, written copies do not exist. Ultra Relax has kanji lyrics on the site here

Incidentally I missed seeing Kodocha as a kid/preteen, but a friend of mine saw it and introduced me to it a couple years ago. I've only managed to get through the first season but I have the second on DVD, this may be my excuse to watch it... (In case you were wondering, the US release of Kodocha uses Ultra Relax as the Op for the first season as well due to licensing issues, hence why I am so familiar with the song even though I haven't seen much of season 2...)

Re: Ultra Relax corrections

Search for Ultra Relax gives two hits:Anime / Kodomo no Omocha / Ultra Relax,Jpop / Shinohara Tomoe / Ultra relax.The second hit remains to be corrected.There is a minor error in the translation that might be fixed at the same time.

The English word GRACIOUS should be replaced with the Spanish word GRACIAS.

Most, (including me), assume that all words are Japanese or English when we translate. The French word BONJOUR reminds us to watch out for other languages in this song.

Most westerners know SAYONARA and most Japanese know BONJOUR and GRACIAS.

I have learnt many English words over the years, but not yet GRACIOUS. I guess it means graciös in my language? Japanese generally know fever English words than I, so I doubt they would use GRACIOUS in a song.